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Recently, demand-response (DR) programmes are one of the appropriate tools for energy systems to encourage flexible customers to participate in the operation of energy systems. One of the complex tasks in multi-energy environments is optimal energy flow (OEF) problem of these systems. In this regard, this study investigates the OEF of an integrated electrical, heat, and gas system considering flexible heat and electrical demands. The conventional DR programme has been combined with the demand-side energy supplying management activity by introducing switching concept among input energy carriers. The way of the supplying energy of flexible customer can be changed by switching among input... 

Today, coordinated expansion planning is one of the key challenges for electricity systems including active distribution networks (ADNs) and transmission networks (TNs) hosting distributed renewable generation as well as large-scale wind energy generation. Accordingly, this study presents a decentralised hybrid robust and stochastic (HR&S) expansion planning optimisation method to determine a robust generation and transmission planning for a TN and stochastic expansion planning for ADNs. The proposed HR&S planning model is formulated with the objective of achieving an effective expansion of both TN&ADN while minimises the investment and operation costs of TN&ADN planning considering wind... 

This article is devoted to the numerical investigation of the shock wave/boundary layer interaction (SWBLI) as the main factor influencing the aerodynamic performance of transonic bumped airfoils and wings. The numerical analysis is conducted for the ONERA-M6 wing through a shock control bump (SCB) shape optimisation process using the adjoint optimisation method. SWBLI is analyzed for both clean and bumped airfoils and wings, and it is shown how the modified wave structure originating from upstream of the SCB reduces the wave drag, by improving the boundary layer velocity profile downstream of the shock wave. The numerical simulation of the turbulent viscous flow and a gradient-based adjoint... 

'Three-link-model' Exergoeconomic methodology optimises the design and operability of a system. Contrary to traditional iterative Exergoeconomic optimisation methods, a reversed method is used, since assumptions considered by Tsatsaronis for calculating cost-optimal Exergetic efficiency and relative cost difference, were not applicable, new assumptions have been adopted. In a case study applied to Mazandaran paper industry, iterative reversed optimisation results have been compared with evolutionary programming results. Replacement of Pressure Valve and Direct Cyclone Contact Evaporation is proposed, while by selection of the optimum decision variable, recoverable black liquor is increased... 

Harmonic pollution minimisation in voltage-source programmed pulse-width modulation (PPWM) inverters is defined as a time-limited optimisation problem in real-time applications with variable DC sources. In order to obtain minimum total harmonic distortion (THD) as the objective function, shuffled-frog-leaping algorithm (SFLA) is modified and employed to calculate the switching angles and compared with non-linear programming as a traditional optimisation method. In addition, particle swarm optimisation and three of its modified versions as popular evolutionary optimisation algorithms are employed to ensure the capability of the proposed optimisation method. Moreover, modified sinusoidal PWM...